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earn their
place left behind to exit the prisons and take a place in Star Force.
Challenges were the best way to ferret out who was worthy and who wasn’t, but
when you needed answers more quickly an Archon mental probe was definitely the
way to go.
    Morgan didn’t stick around to watch all this go down.
Once she delivered the prisoners and resupplied her ships she returned to
Achkor and picked up another Voku escort, then went back out hunting more
Hobbits on the Skarron worlds that had been cut off by the lizards razing the
regional capitol .
    Not all of them surrendered, in fact most didn’t. Some
hadn’t been visited by the lizards yet and Morgan had to conquer the planets in
order to get to the Hobbits, killing many in the process before they could be
convinced to surrender. Most of the Skarrons fought to the death, but like in Quixva there were some who didn’t see the point in further
resistance and accepted the surrender offer. Some were individual cities,
others military bases or even individual walkers. No full planets surrendered
until they were reduced to scraps, with Morgan not needing to make a one and
done campaign to head back with a full load of prisoners.
    One by one she went around to the weakened or under
attack systems, catching one in the very end of a lizard attack and only able
to rescue a few thousand individuals after her fleet kicked the crap out of the
invaders. The trailblazer made use of the transitional nightmare in the region,
picking up survivors where she could as the lizards methodically chewed apart
withering pieces of the Skarron supply lines and claiming the worlds for themselves
with infantile colonies, some of which she destroyed when she came across them for
good measure.
    But even with several large Skarron fleets roaming the
region and hitting targets there were too many lizard startups to eliminate,
meaning that no matter how many big fights the Skarrons won the lizards were
taking territory…and with every year that passed those little seeds grew,
making them even harder to eliminate down the road up until the point where
they were no longer vulnerable and full-fledged strongholds.
    The collapse of the region didn’t happen quickly,
taking decades to accomplish, but by the end of it all the former Skarron
border with Achkor would completely disappear, leaving nothing but lizard
colonies and the systems they chose not to take interest in, with the ADZ being
further swallowed up by the lizard advance.

 
 
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    February 7, 2675
    Gravis System
(beyond Protovic border)
    Hampric

 
    Paul watched from the command nexus onboard the Ma’kri
as the ship’s Ka’sevron cannons fired off their own projectiles along with the
nearby drone fleet’s rail gun rounds. All fell to the planet’s surface and the
small lizard colony there, with only one shield dome left to penetrate. The
rail guns were going there, but the Ka’sevron rounds were falling on one of the
exposed cities.
    The hollow rounds hit buildings and sunk through the
infrastructure, using their kinetic mass to punch through before the internal
energy cocktail reached overload. It never happened at exactly the same moment,
but within a few seconds of impact each of the imbedded rounds exploded from
within, creating far more damage than the rail gun slugs or even the cleansing
beams could manage. Right now those were pinpoint targeting lizard structures
in a number of exposed cities, while Paul was reserving the Ka’sevron rounds
for where he needed to level a given area.
    They were also useful in naval warfare in select
circumstances, but because they wouldn’t detonate on contact they were
virtually useless against shields save for their kinetic value. If fired
against a warship with sufficient shields to hold up to the physical assault
the rounds would hit and either deform or deflect, sending them off into space
where they would then detonate with little or no secondary damage done to the
ship.
    Then